The King Takes Luxembourg Because It Is His Will.--Devastation of the Electorate of Treves.--The Marquis de Louvois.--His Portrait.--The Marvels Which He Worked.--The Le Tellier and the Mortemart.--The King Destines De Mortemart to a Colbert.--How One Manages Not to Bow.--The Dragonades.--A Necessary Man.--Money Makes Fat.--Meudon.--The Horoscope. This journey to Flanders did not keep the King long away from his capital. And, withal, he made two fine and rich conquests, short as the space of time was. The important town of Luxembourg was necessary to him. He wanted it. The Marechal de Crequi invested this place with an army of thirty thousand men, and made himself master of it at the end of…
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